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- speaker-0: Hey anglers, it's time for the Jig is up segment right here on Sackalay Talk. Today we are going behind the scenes with a true craftsman of the crappy world. He builds custom hand-tied hair jigs that are putting massive slabs in live wells across Louisiana and Mississippi. Please welcome the owner and operator of Tiny's Hand-tied hair jigs, Mr. Kenneth Tani Urban's. Tiny, welcome to the show. speaker-1: True. Thank you, Duane. It's nice to be here. speaker-0: My pleasure, Tiny. We're s super excited to have you join us for our the jig is up segment today. Tiny, if you're ready, man, we're locked and loaded. speaker-1: Ready to go. speaker-0: Okay, awesome. Tiny, what motivated you to start Tiny's hand tied hair jigs and what gap were you trying to fill for anglers? speaker-1: originally I started the whole situation on a on a bit. I was living on Grenada Lake in a camper with my late wife at the time and before she passed and we were watching a YouTube video at the time of guy that goes by the Lake Fork guy on Lake Fork in Texas and he was fishing with hair jigs and he was catching crappie and he was I mean he was loading that wet live well and she she really enjoyed watching him and she pointed out she said, Look how pretty that jig is he's using and I said, Ain't nothing I couldn't do and she said, You might could do one, but it wouldn't catch no fish. So I bet her twenty dollars that I could tie her jig that would catch fish just as well as his would. So so I got it old jig head I had at the house and found some thread and found everything I could find. But she was disabled and I couldn't find no feathers or nothing and she had gone to sleep and it was getting late and I'd looked all over the house and I remembered that I had dyed some purple streaks in her hair the earlier that day. And I got to thinking that the purple streaks I dyed in her hair would make a real pretty jig. So I got some scissors and I snuck over there to her bedside and I got just a few streaks of her hair And I said, if I do it real quietly and real easy, she won't even notice it. And the snip of those scissors woke her up and I got the cussing of my life. But I got me some purple hair and I tied a jig and there was a a tournament fisherman that lived just a a few exits over from us in Ba Batesville, Mississippi, and I took that jig to him. And he was actually gonna be doing a tournament that weekend with Crappie Masters on Grenada Lake. And he agreed to fish that jig in that tournament. And I tied him a few more and him and his partner finished tenth with those jigs I tied. And so I won the twenty dollars and and I don't know, I enjoyed doing it. So he hooked me up with a speaker-0: That's a speaker-1: He hooked me up with a jig maker, that you made really good jig heads and I ordered some supplies and just I've tied it I've been tying for about ten years now. speaker-0: Man, that's an awesome story, man. Connie, from the second you set the jig head in the vise, what is your process of making a custom hand-tied jig from start to finish? speaker-1: Well, I can actually show you. I take a jig head and I have these made on special mustad hooks. This is actually a one forty eighth ounce that I had custom made. I have all my all my heads custom poured. I do everything on J hooks except for things like a one forty eighth and a one thirty second. And I have those poured on a on a sickle. And I do that because I use a a number six hook for those. And things like that I have poured on something as small as the number six hook, I feel like they need a wider hook gap. So I do those on a sickle hook so they have a wider hook gap and you're gonna get a better hookup. And the next thing I do after I put that head in the jig in the vice. Is I I do the thread thread base. This is actually a jig that a specialty jig that was I was asked to tie by Crappie Dan Danimuler out of the Watumka, Alabama area. He's a pro that travels all over tie and he owns Crappie Mount Now magazine. and He fishes my jigs all over the country. And this jig is tied with a feather. The next thing I do is I get my feathers. And And just put get me a what I call a V feathers. is the what I what I feel like I need to for that first s session and sometimes it'll end up that first session will end up being all I need. It just depends on the size of the jig and what it looks like when I get this first bit on. It just depends on how it looks when I get there. I may search for some stuff here because ha I just got home from the hospital a little while ago and I haven't tied a jig in a while. speaker-0: At least eight days, right? speaker-1: Yeah, at least eight days. See if I can reach that glue bottle. And then I put a little glue on there to in those get a g little glue in that feather bed and that well in that thread bed I mean, because that glue is gonna gonna penetrate that fe that thread and it's gonna penetrate all the way to the hook. And then I'm gonna run some more thread through that glue. And I believe that's gonna be enough feather for this little jig. It's one forty eighth ounce, it don't take a lot of on a number six hook it don't take a lot of feather. And this particular jig, for the color of body they wanted this and the size of the head, it's gonna be it's gonna it's gonna be just a it's gonna be just a thread a thread body. I'm not gonna put any I'm not gonna put any Chanel on it if on a on a typical jig And I'll do this one a little different because I wanna I wanna show you the the normal process. the normal process that I follow, if I can find what I had here, yeah, here it is. the actual normal process that I would follow is And even though I dropped my scissors. Here we go. Eight days I'm gonna drop everything. It's been eight days since I used my fingers. speaker-0: Right. speaker-1: The normal process is then to Take a piece of body chanel. This is gonna be like this here. I use a bunch of different kinds of chanel depending on w what I'm what I'm tying. it yeah, you know, I use tons of different types of of body ma of body material. I probably got I probably got a hundred different types of body material in the in this room. Because I y I tie I tie a lot of custom too. I don't just I've got a line of product but I don't just tie a lot of a lot of tires will only tie what what is in their line and you have to buy what they offer in their line. If that's not if it's not in their catalog or in their website or Something that they eat regular. They won't tie it. They won't just try to make something custom for somebody. not even for their pro staff. I I will tie I got guys that call that send me pictures and say, Can you can you tie a jig like this? And I will research materials and I'll figure out a way to come up with a way to come up with that that particular jig for them. And then I I wrap the chanel around the jig head just like I did this. And then I'm wrap the thread around that Chanel. And then I'm off run it. And what what that's doing is that's tying off this body chanel so it's tie it off and it's not unwrapped. Okay. And I also had ran some glue down that thread top of that thread body again, that thread bed after I had wrapped the thread through the original glue I put on, I put more glue and ran the chanel through the glue. And now I'm gonna wrap it a c a couple more times after I cut that sh body chanel off, the excess off, and and tie it on. I'm gonna wrap it a couple more times. Then I take this tool called a whip finisher, and it took me probably three or four years to learn how to use this little tool. That was the one thing it took me the longest to figure out how to use, and I had to figure out how to hand tie. thread to tie off these things to because I couldn't figure out how to use this little tool for the longest. And I had people show me how to use it and everything and I just couldn't figure it out. I was just too stupid to figure it out. And then one day it just hit me and I I figured it out myself one day, just playing with it. And then I use that whip finisher tool and what that does is it knots off this thread so the thread won't come undone. And then I use the tip of my scissors and cut that thread off as close as I can get it. And you gotta hurry. speaker-0: There you go everybody. That's how Tiny ties his custom tied hair jigs. I mean that's that's all that's awesome awesome display. Thank you. speaker-1: Yeah, I like I like showing doing displays. I'll I'll do these I'll do these expos and set up and sell my product and I always have a table set up to where I can tie at the shows because I want people to see the quality of my work. I feel like the I feel like I have the the best I think my There's people that maybe put out prettier jigs than me. but I feel like I tie a jig that lasts longer than longer or as long as anybody else in the on the market. speaker-0: Okay. speaker-1: and that's what that's what I live by. this is a new product I'm doing. This is This one's made out of elk air. I got a supplier in up in Wisconsin or someplace that sends me L care. And I've doing these new L care jigs. speaker-0: And w and what what s what species of fish would you target with with those jigs? speaker-1: Crappy. speaker-0: Cropping. speaker-1: Yeah. Everything I d most everything I do is crappie. I do have I am putting out a new a new a new product now, for bass. I am putting out I am starting a new a new line now doing a I had a couple of stores that I that I'm that I'm doing so putting in that have asked me to put out a bass jig, so I'm doing a a bass product. this is a seven eighth ounce head and they're for bass. speaker-0: Okay. speaker-1: And this one has a this one is actually has what I c what's called a stinger hook on it. If you're not familiar with a stinger hook, this one has a s has a has a Number two treble hook. tie it on that trails it and this treble hook is in the hair and it runs behind in the hair behind the jig hook and that way when you get those nippers that nip at the hair but they don't get the jig hook they get that they and they just nip at the hair, they get that treble hook and you're gonna catch them too. speaker-0: Okay. All right, Tiny, let's move on. Tiny, you started this business out of a camper traveling between Mississippi's Big Four, Crappy Lakes. How did living right on the water shape the design and performance of your hair jigs? speaker-1: I think. She did a lot because I w I was right there among the biggest copy lakes in the country at when I started and I had the opportunity to work with crappie fishermen from all over the United States, being up there. And so I knew what what people wanted from the Northern Lakes and it gave me the opportunity to find out what people wanted from Minnesota and Wisconsin and Alaska and Missouri and you know, from the Midwest and the northern states to just everywhere. And you know, and then, you know, Texas and Louisiana and I I just worked with everybody. And so it gave me the opportunity to work with people from all over the country. And so it gave me the opportunity to know what everybody wanted. And so a lot of the guys that are stationed in one particular state that doesn't have the opportunity to work with so many different crappie guys kinda has to feel their way feel their way through things because they don't have the opportunity to work with so many different people so early in their career. speaker-0: Okay. All right. Hey, Tiny, for anglers out there who exclusively fish soft plastic, what makes a custom hand tied hair jig outperform plastic when the water temperatures drop or the fish get finicky? speaker-1: I think with with my product because my product and that's why I stand behind my product and I I make my product to where it will outlast anybody else's Soft plastic users are fast to say they want to fish soft plastics because when a hair jig wears out halfway through the day, they have to retie another hair jig and they can just you know slip on a new soft plastic real quick. I have I have fishermen that will tell you And they tell they they say this and they went on on Facebook and posted it on social media and posted it everywhere. I've had fishermen go on social media and say they've got a hair jig they've got one of my hair jigs on our poll. guys that have fished my hair jig for eight hundred fish and still using it. And wow. and they say it, not me. So I just tell you don't you don't have to retie my hair jigs. And so they don't have to worry about retying my hair jigs. If they put on one of my hair jigs and it's working, then they're good they're good for the day, they're good for the week, they're good for d you know, for the month. you know, depending on how often they fish. so they don't have to worry about that. And they can fish most of the products most of the what I tie gets gets bit year round. and a lot of fishermen say that they can only they can only fish hair hair jigs in the spring or or whatever, you know, that's the only time they can get fish to bite you know, my my guides and stuff say that they can they can fish my hair jigs year round and and fish fish bite So I just tell look, you know, it's the proof's in the puddin. My guy's fishing my jigs year round. speaker-0: Yeah, 'cause I was gonna ask you that that's the first time I heard that you can fish hair jigs year round. So you can fish your your jigs year round. speaker-1: that's what that's what Homer guys tell me. speaker-0: Okay. Well good enough. If this if that's what they're telling you. speaker-1: I I don't speaker-0: The pro speaker-1: I don't have time to fish often enough to to to say that, but that's what my fishermen tell me. speaker-0: If yep, if th if that's what they're if your pro guys are telling you that, that's that's that's that's awesome. speaker-1: You you pull you get on you get on social media on Crappie Now and and watch Dan Danam mule or he'll tell you he'll fish my jigs year round. speaker-0: Okay. All right. Hey Tiny. We're in the middle of fall transition right now. How should anglers be fishing your jigs right now? speaker-1: How should they use them right now? speaker-0: Yes, in in in the fall transition, how should they be fishing your your jigs right now? speaker-1: I think most of the guys right now are are well, most of my guys are are focusing on life scope. So Okay. so they're they're they're single pol they're single polling with their live scope right now. And I know a couple of weeks ago you had on what was that guy's name out of Louisiana? and social media guy, he had a catch name. I talked to him after he had him on and I'm gonna send him some jigs. speaker-0: Was it Jeffrey Owens? He was from Texas though. I speaker-1: No, you had to I speaker-0: had I had Brad Black from L and B Custom Hand Tie Jigs. speaker-1: No, you had a guy on the fish fisherman, speaker-0: the sasquash speaker-1: No, not the chef. I saw that one too, but you had on I can't think of the guy's name now, but they're gonna they're gonna they're using they're using Live Scope and they're single pole jigging in Louisiana right now. and they're single pole jigging most everywhere right now. single pole jigging. they're single pole jigging on on the on the bushes and on the trees and anywhere that they got timbers and stuff like that, that's what they're that's what they're hitting mostly right now, is what they're focusing on. speaker-0: Okay. All right. Hey, Tiny, if a regular weekend warrior wants a high highly specific headweight, hook size, and hair color blend, how can they get a true custom order built by you? speaker-1: Right now they're gonna want The true custom jig they want from me right now is called Tiny's Terror. And it's a it's a special jig that only I tie. It's on a it's on a disco lime head. It's got a white feather, hackle feather tail with a white Pearl pearl body and it's got a little bit of chartreuse flash in it. And they're fishing that all over the country, every lake in the country, and that jig catches fish everywhere year round. It don't matter what time of year it is, it don't matter what lake in the country it is. dependent on the lake and what what depth of water they're catching the the what cat they're catching the fishing that they gotta determine their head weight on. you know, I I don't know what headweight they're whatever headweight they're they use typically will be will be the decision they have to make. But that's the jig that is is used more I sell that jig ten to ten to one of any other jig I tie and it is it is used more than any other jig I I sell. speaker-0: Okay. speaker-1: And I sell pr I I tie hundreds of colors. speaker-0: Okay. let me ask you this, Tiny, what is your personal philosophy on color selection when dealing with Louisiana stain or muddy waters versus clear lake conditions? speaker-1: Stained or muddy waters. My personal my personal belief, a lot of people think that in stain and muddy waters you need to use a light colored jig because it's easier to see in stained and muddy waters. And that's totally false. The darker the water, the darker the jig you want. And it's simply because jigged fish fish fish feed by the the words escaping me but by the the shadow that it puts off in the water. What do you what what do you call it? The the dark j the dark jigs. The darker the water, the darker jig you want because it puts off a a shadow in the water that the jig the the fish see they see that that dark shadow and They go after that quicker than they go after anything. So you got dark dark dark water. I got a I got a jig I call Black Widow. It's a black head, black hair, black body. It's got a little bit of silver flash just for a little bit of flicker. And That jig gets hit ten to one in dark wa and and and very and really dark water over anything I tie. speaker-0: Okay. All right. Hey Tiny, with Livescope being such a massive part of crappy fishing today, how do your jigs look and track on the screen compared to standard plastics? speaker-1: My jig track really well. as well or better than standard plastics. I don't really know how to explain it, but I can watch I can actually watch my jigs go down on live scope and I can see the hair or the or the feathers as they flow in the water as they as they fall. I can watch on the end of that line and I can watch the flow as they fall. And As they get there and you drop over that fish. And if you drop it over that fish and you set it there, and then that fish is looking up at it, if you jig it, you can watch that hair or that feather. You can just watch the slight flow you get out of it. Every little jig you give. And I mean you can see every little movement it makes. And on those plastics, they're just they're dead when you when you jig I don't I don't even understand how how they really react to fish. And I I and I know that because I was on Enid Lake I don't know about three years ago with a buddy of mine and he dropped a plastic with a minnow min with a minnow tipper and he dropped it over a big fish and he sat there for I don't know, thirty seconds or so and he couldn't get that it was a big old fish and we sat there and watched it and that fish would not go up and hit that hit that plastic with that minnow and he jigged it and it it would not go after it. And I said, Pull that up a minute and I had a j pole with tiny star on it and I dropped it down and I got it. And I watched it flow as it went down. I dropped it in over that fish and I got it there and I jigged it one little time and as that feather flo flowed and I watched that feather flow and as it come down off that first little jig, that fish went up and hit that thing. About yanked the pole out of my hand and I pulled in and it was a it was a three point six. Or three wow three point two six, I'm sorry, three point two six. And it was a big speaker-0: That's awesome, fish. speaker-1: it w it wouldn't it wouldn't hit that plastic with that jig tip jig tipper on it and it hit that it hit that terror just real fast. And they just sit there and looked at that plastic with that minnow on it. speaker-0: wow. Hey Tiny, let me ask you, do you recommend using artificial scents or gels on your hand tied jigs? Or or does that ruin the natural precipitation and movement of the hair? speaker-1: I don't think it hurts it at all. I do I do recommend pre treating some jigs before you go out. maybe pre-treat what you got on your line and then if you and give them a few you know, a few minutes to at least set before you use And if you wanna if you got a couple poles with a jig on you know, if you're gonna re respray one then lay it down and let it sit and drop the other one and use it while the other one has a chance to sit, but I think they need to sit for a few s a few minutes before you reuse after you treat and give just a few minutes drying time. I think they present a little more. I haven't done it in a while, but I used to sell some that I used to pre treat some and sell them already treated. I quit doing it for some reason. I don't remember why, but I I had quit pre treating them. I think they were I I don't remember, I think they were the bags were leaking the treatment or something, but I used to pre treat and sell some treated. I don't think it hurts the presentation at all though. And I don't I don't think there's a problem with treat with treating them scent. I think they I think they hold the scent better than plastic. speaker-0: Okay. Awesome. next question. for for an angler that's always fish with plastic style jigs and they want to start a custom hand tied jig box, what five jigs should they have in their box for Sack Lade fishing? speaker-1: I think they I think they need to have a variety, but I think the three sizes they should have always is well depending on what they normally fish they if they if they have a a preferred size have more of their preferred size. in Louisiana it seems like the preferred size is one sixteenth ounce. So I would have more one sixteenth than anything else, but I think they should have at least half that of one thirty seconds and always have at least a few one eighths. and have a few, you know, a few one eighths of of everything they have the others in. but I think they need at least at least a few one eighth and one sixteenth and one thirty seconds of every color. because you don't ever know what what color you're gonna do well with. And depending on the water and the wind and the depths you're gonna find the fish and you know, you just just never know what what weight you're gonna need and how how fast you're gonna need it to drop and so so Those are the three sizes I recommend. speaker-0: What what color profile should should they start out with? speaker-1: Well, in my in my jigs, I recommend they have Tiny's terror of course. More of that than anything. and they should have grenade of gold. And And then I think they need to have I think they need to have some of this some of these n new jigs I'm doing. which I got some here I wanna show you some of this new new stuff I'm I'm putting out. I've got some new stuff a lot of people have never seen and nobody else ties. This is my new beaver tail. These things have unbelievable movement in the water. speaker-0: So that's that's one of your your new products you have on the horizon? speaker-1: Yes, sir. I've just started putting these out and they are an unbelievable product. And I'm not a hundred percent sure, but I believe in Louisiana they can find my product at Superior Bait and Tackle in Baton Rouge and and at Shaq's Shags Shag's Shags in Mettery. And Sag and Medry has a huge selection of my hair of a lot of my hair products. and superior at Mait and Tackle and Baton Rouge, Mark's got some brand new hand ties that I tied specifically for his store. he's got some of my tiny star, but he's and but he's got and he's got some of my another one they need to have is black and chartreuse. Everybody needs the black and chartreuse and white and chartreuse. those are some must haves everywhere. Okay. And I know Black and Chartreuse at Superior in in Baton Rouge and he's got some he's got some of the new my new LSU baits over there over there at Baton Rouge that I tied for him some gold and purple. which I think are gonna be big in that in that in in Louisiana. speaker-0: Well I definitely have to go check out Superior and especially those those purple and gold ones. speaker-1: Yeah, look I think you gonna like purple and gold. speaker-0: I yeah, I I love I'm definitely gonna go check him out, man. I I I may go check him out tomorrow. Hey Tani, how has interacting directly with the fishing community online impacted the way you design or test new product lines? speaker-1: It's impacted me a lot because I well, in the past a lot. I used to do a lot of live tie a lot live on the internet and I I don't do as much as I used to and I gotta start again. I used to do a lot of a lot of live ties online and on Facebook and YouTube and TikTok and I and I gotta get back after it and do it do more of but I've had some health issues that have stopped me from doing it. And doing that has really gave me the opportunity to deal with a lot of people that I wouldn't be able to deal with other ways. And it's had people that will send in ideas and call me with ideas and ideas that I try and they really work out well and so I'll start doing it and so I end up getting these people's addresses and I send them send them some of the baits that I tied off of their ideas for them to fish with and try and they give they let you know send me pictures of how how their how their ideas worked out in the water and things. So It's just really It's been a it's been a dealing with the people online has just really been a big had a big impact on my business and on my the way I do the way I work and how I tie. speaker-0: Okay. Hey, Tiny, next question. Have you noticed a change in what Sakalay anglers look for in a jig such as weight or profile changes since life scoping fishing has become so popular? speaker-1: I have and and what I've noticed is a huge comeback in hair jigs. before Lifescope hair jigs were almost extinct. Before Livescope hair jigs were a thing of the past. And since Livescope there's been a huge return of the hair jig of the hair jig. And I don't know that I would have ever gotten into hair jigs like I have if if it hadn't been for Live Scope. because life scope giving people the opportunity to watch watch the way the f the baits fall and see the way the the bait moves and how the fish are attracted by the movement of the hair and by the feathers has really given fishermen a reason to want to use hair jigs again. and and hair jigs have made a a huge comeback with live scope. and and minnows have minnows were a big thing before hair before live scope b when they did a lot of when they did a lot of for people that did a lot of long lining or spider rigging. but people that didn't do that they were using, you know, slip slip bobbering and stuff were using soft plastics. And now that they can watch the the jig on the screen, single pole jigging they're using a lot more minnows on single pole and stuff now and study at the slip bob instead of the slip bobbers and stuff. They're using minnows for single pole and a lot more too. And that's why I created this particular jig. It's I call it a crappie clauser. It's the old clauser minnow from fly fishing days. And what I've done is I've got a I've got a one-twentieth of an ounce dumbbell eye and a one-tenth of an ounce dumbbell eye. And I'm doing a large clauser minnow on a number two hook and on num and then I'm doing a a one a one twentieth of an ounce on a number four and a number six hook. And these react a lot more like minnows and they're they they have really for minnow fishermen They have really these have really took off because they react a lot like ninos in the water. speaker-0: Okay. All right. speaker-1: And I'm the only one that ties those. speaker-0: Okay. That's awesome, Tiny. Tiny, let me ask you this. What does it mean to you when local tournament anglers or guides put your hand tied jigs on their lines when money and reputations are on the line? speaker-1: It means the world to me. It really does. I've got a a guy down in Texas, Bob Jenkins, with Trying to think of the name of his his webpage and I can't think of it right now. But his name is Bob Jenkins. He's a guide in Texas, one of the best guides in Texas. y'all look him up on Facebook. His name is Bob Jenkins. If you want to go down to Texas and fish Decker or pretty much any lake in that part of in and around where Decker Lake is, I'm trying to think a Bass Trop area. in the Bass Trop, Texas area. Bob fishes all those lakes down there. Granger Lake, Decker Lake, all those lakes. He d he fishes them all. and he runs year he runs all year. And that's all he does is guide guide fish guide fish crappie trips. And Bob Bob's an amazing guy. And Bob puts my jigs on his line and people call me and say, Bob Jenkins told me about you. And he tells us he's used every jig in in the country and tied by everybody in the country and he's never used a jig as good as yours. And so I mean it it just mean it It gives me the big head when people call me and tell me that. And well speaker-0: Well Tiny Tiny, that's quite an endorsement. that's that's awesome, man. speaker-1: And guys like Krabbidan Danimuller goes on it on on his on internet and you know, does social media and does and talks about my jigs, you know. Guys with reputations like these guys and you know, it just it means a world to me. I I can't I can't tell ya how much it means to me. I can't explain it. It just it means the world to me. And some of the these stores that sell my product, you know, they're putting their re their you know, their reputation. when they sell my pro you know, when they sell product that I've that I've made and they're you know, they're putting their their store name on a line, you know, by selling my product and and telling her customers, how good of a product it is and this and that, And it just it means the world to me that they they respect my product enough to you know, put their name behind mine. speaker-0: Okay. That's awesome. Yeah. That's that's quite an endorsements from from from those guys. Tiny, looking ahead, what are some of your new profiles or secret projects that you are working on that we can look forward to seeing next from Tiny Hand Tied Hair Jigs? speaker-1: I've got a lot of a lot of really cool stuff coming up and I actually have got some stuff to to to show. cu I I I knew you were gonna ask that, so I pulled out a few things to to show you. I've got a new product coming out called Duck Feet. It's a new tale that I got coming out. And this is coming out real soon. I've got it coming out in a lot of a lot of cool colors. I've got it coming out in pinks and greens and I got it I got it coming out in like a monkey milk monkey milk color and pink and Go then. There's all kinds of colors. These these are gonna be a really killer product. And I'm I'm excited to have the to have these and have these on the market real soon. Matter of fact, I'm gonna have these on the table. There is going to be a for anybody who's close enough, Lake Logan Martin. It's about I don't know, forty miles south of Birmingham, Alabama. And it's on Lake Logan Martin. It's called the Logan Martin Martin shootout. It's put on by the Midwest Crappie Alliance. It's gonna be the fifth through the seventh of November, so it's about a week away. I think it's eight days away or so. ten days away, something like that. Anyway, it's coming up real soon and it's It's a fishing tournament. They got ninety boats fishing for like something like fifty thousand dollars. And there's also a fishing expo. We're gonna have I don't know how many how many tackle tackle designers and tackle companies are gonna be there setting up at the expo and I'm actually gonna have some live minnow tanks there and along with all my all my other products and different things I've got coming out. and I have a lot of my new stuff out for that that sale. I've actually rolled out about six to new six new soft plastics that I've got on the market. And I'm gonna have those on the market. that's gonna be the first public sale for those. And It's gonna be the fifth through the seventh of November. Anybody who's close enough to Lake Loganmart in Alabama, I can show this one. This is the one I got handy. But I got this is one of the new this is one of my new zipper minnows that I'm rolling out at that show. It's a two inch zipper minnow. That's one of the colors I've got that in. I got about I think it's six colors. And I'm also rolling out those six c this color and six the other six colors. I'm rolling out a two inch stinger and an inch and a half stinger s stinger and most of the colors, along with a two inch zipper minnow. And so I've got a lot of new stuff coming out. It's it's gonna be a great a great two thousand twenty seven. Twenty twenty seven for me. speaker-0: Well we're we're definitely looking forward to to seeing your your new product lines coming to market. Tiny, aside from ordering online, what regional bait shops and hubs across Mississippi and Louisiana can our listeners walk into and grab a pack of tiny jigs off the shelf? speaker-1: Okay, it's not just Louisiana, Mississippi and it's also Alabama. but right now, in Louisiana you can go in Baton Rouge, you can go to Superior Bait and Tackle in Baton Rouge. And you can go to Shags and Shags out I I think it's Sags Outdoors or SAG Sporting Goods. I'm not sure w it's SAGs anyway. And Mettery, those are the two places I'm in in Louisiana right now. both of those have my product in Louisiana. and then in Baton Rouge already said go in superior bait and tackle and Baton Rouge and those are the two places in Louisiana and Mississippi I'm in Grenada, Mississippi in Back 40 Outdoors. you can find my product at Back 40 Outdoors in Grenada. You can go to Sardis, Mississippi and go to Nana's Bait Shop and get my my stuff in Sardis at Nana's Bait Shop. In Alabama you can go to Auburn, Alabama to Pop's bait and tackle in Auburn, Alabama and find my product. And where else? I'm in Texas too, but that the name of that place in Texas has just escaped me. And I c I gotta I g I gotta look it up. But I'm trying to think where else? I I've gotten I've gotten too big to remember it all. Those are the places in the south. Those are the places in Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama. speaker-0: Okay, that's no problem, Tiny. Tiny, this is last question. where can the Sacklade Talk community follow you and order your your custom hand-tied jigs? speaker-1: Okay, they can go to Tackle by Tiny. is my website. they can also find me at Tiny's Hand Tied Hair Jigs on Facebook. And or they can just call me on the phone if they want to. They can call me at six six two seven one zero three zero zero two. They can call me, they can text me. I never sleep, so it don't matter when they call. speaker-0: Okay. speaker-1: I'm I'm sitting here tying jigs ninety percent of the time day and night. speaker-0: Okay. All right everybody. That's that's how you can you can order go order use some Tiny's custom hand tied hair jigs. Tani, I can't thank you enough for jumping on with us and sharing your insights and expertise with our listeners. speaker-1: Well it's good to be here, Dwayne. speaker-0: We we we need to do this again soon. Anytime you you got some new products? speaker-1: Just let me know. I'm ready to get speaker-0: Coming out. All right. Yeah, we'll we'll definitely do this again soon, okay? speaker-1: All right, buddy. speaker-0: Till till next time, Tiny. I'll talk to you later. speaker-1: All right, Wayne. speaker-0: And that wraps up this edition of the Jig Is Up segment here on Sacklay Talk. A massive thank you to Mr. Kenneth Tynan Urban from Tiny's Hand Tied Hair Jigs for coming on the show and sharing the secrets behind those incredible custom patterns like Blue Terra and Cosmic Cactus. If you want to stop messing around with torn plastics and start putting some serious slabs in your boat, you need to get your hands on Tiny's legendary jigs. You can check out his full lineup or place a custom order by visiting the official Tiny Jigs online store or heading over to Tiny Hand Tie Jigs Facebook page. Don't forget to like, subscribe and drop a comment below to let us know your favorite hair gig color pattern for the fall bite. Until next time, keep your lines tight, your hooks sharp, and we'll see you right back here next week on Sackley Talk.